Irnham, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Irnham, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands near the river Glen, 2½ miles NE from Corby station on the G.N.R., and 6 NW from Bourn, and has a post office under Bourn; money order and telegraph office, Corby. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bulby and Hawthorpe. Acreage, 3809; population, 316. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ancaster. Bulby House is an Elizabethan building standing in a pleasant park. Irnham Hall is a handsome mansion in the Tudor style. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Corby, in the diocese of Lincoln; joint gross value, £500 with residence. The church is ancient and good, consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower, and contains some ancient monuments and brasses.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Irnham St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Beltisloe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Irnham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1911 | 1755-1777 | 1559-1911 | 1559-1812 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Irnham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Irnham (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Irnham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: